Reddit reviews Dragonfly: NASA And The Crisis Aboard Mir

Yes the book Dragonfly

I haven't read too many that would fit the bill, but the first ones that come to mind are:

• Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
  
• The 4 Percent Universe: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Race to Discover the Rest of Reality (I haven't managed to read through the entire thing, but so far it is pretty good)
  
• Dragonfly: NASA And The Crisis Aboard Mir
  
• Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond
  
  If anything else comes to mind, I'll make sure to post it.

Dragonfly - I highly recommend it as well. Excellent, comprehensive book about Mir.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0887307833

Bryan Burrough.

A lot of the book covers the politics of the joint Russian/American missions to the ageing MIR, but I read it for the firsthand accounts of the MIR fire and Progress collision and wasn't disappointed.

If the Shuttle/Mir era interests you, Dragonfly is a must-read. It has a lot of inside stories of the people involved, and is a great technical and human drama.

http://www.amazon.com/Dragonfly-NASA-And-Crisis-Aboard/dp/0887307833